The University of South Carolina had two big, related announcements this week:
- Creation of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the Hollings Special Collections Library, and
- News that U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, the first African American from South Carolina elected to the U.S. House of Representatives since Reconstruction, would donate his congressional papers to USC.
“I am honored to add my congressional papers to the University of South Carolina’s significant civil rights collection,” Clyburn said. “The establishment of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research allows for my Congressional papers to be a part of a larger effort to give vibrancy to South Carolina’s history and credence to its civil rights activities.”
USC President Harris Pastides said the new center would be the state’s first location dedicated to telling South Carolina’s civil rights story. Learn more.
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